In your machines with the older ACE editor, your node-red version is either v2.x or there is a setting in settings.js forcing the old editor to be used.
See this: Getting the monaco editor to work in NR 2.x - #33 by Steve-Mcl
Ps: did you also update Node-RED on the main machine?
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